SEO Consultant Sydney
Work directly with a senior strategist, not an account manager
Your SEO consultant in Sydney is one of two senior people, Blake P., founder, or Girish Kishore Sawlani, Head of Strategy & Growth, and the person who sets the strategy is the person who does the work.
Skip the account management layer. The senior strategist who diagnoses your problems is the one who designs the strategy, across technical SEO, content, AI search and commercial keyword campaigns. Month to month, with 30 days’ notice.
- Audits from $1,000
- Consulting $1,000–$5,000/month
- Free 30-minute strategy meeting
- Since 2006
- No lock-in contracts
Your brief is relayed. Technical questions get passed along.
A direct line to the person doing the work.
Why Sydney businesses switch to a consultant
The usual reasons are a hand-off to an account manager, reports full of vanity metrics and a 12-month lock-in that removes any pressure to earn your renewal.
Most businesses that come to us engaged an agency, invested for six months and had negligible commercial outcomes to show for it.
Handed to an account manager
Your brief went to an account manager, who relayed it to someone else. The person making decisions rarely spoke to you.
Vanity-metric reports
Impressions and sessions graphs that never connect to rankings that matter, leads or revenue.
Locked in for 12 months
Long contracts protect the agency’s retention, so there’s little pressure to earn your renewal.
How consulting with us differs from a typical agency
Your brief goes straight to your strategist, who carries 8–10 engagements at most, works month to month and reports on rankings, leads and revenue.
The difference isn’t size. It’s who you deal with every day and who makes the strategic decisions on your account.
| Topic | Typical agency | Consulting with us |
|---|---|---|
| Your brief | Typical agency:Goes to a coordinator, then gets relayed to a practitioner | Consulting with us:Goes straight to your strategist |
| Workload | Typical agency:A practitioner managing many accounts at once | Consulting with us:One practitioner per 8–10 engagements at most |
| Strategy | Typical agency:Set by someone who rarely talks to you | Consulting with us:Set by someone who knows your competitive landscape personally |
| Contract | Typical agency:12-month lock-in to protect their retention | Consulting with us:Month to month: you stay because the results justify it |
| Reporting | Typical agency:Padded with impressions and sessions graphs | Consulting with us:Tied to ranking positions, leads and revenue |
What our SEO consulting covers
Strategy spans technical, content, local, AI search and eCommerce SEO, with hands-on help for migrations, penalty recovery and day-to-day work such as title tags and content briefs.
Senior strategy from the person doing the analysis, working alongside your developers or in-house team if you have them.
Strategy and specialisms
- Technical SEO: site architecture, crawl optimisation, Core Web Vitals, JavaScript rendering and schema
- Content strategy: topical authority, keyword mapping, content gap analysis and E-E-A-T signals
- Local SEO strategy: Business Profile, suburb-level keywords, citation architecture and review systems
- AI search: visibility in Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT and Perplexity
- eCommerce SEO for Shopify, Magento and WooCommerce: faceted navigation, product schema and category architecture
Hands-on work
- Migrations and restructures: pre-migration audit, redirect mapping, monitoring and post-launch checks for every URL
- Penalty recovery: finding the cause, cleaning it up and filing a reconsideration request where needed
- Day-to-day work: title tags, content briefs, schema, internal links and Search Console reviews
Years in search
Senior experience on your account from day one, not someone three months out of university working from a checklist.
No lock-in contract
Month to month with 30 days’ notice. If the work isn’t producing commercial outcomes, you should leave.
Reported every month
Monthly milestones and reporting on rankings, leads and revenue.
- Rankings
- Leads
- Revenue
- Milestones
Consulting engagement options
Choose an audit and roadmap from $1,000, one-to-one advisory at $1,000–$5,000 a month, or a fractional in-house role on a custom quote.
Consulting isn’t a smaller agency retainer. It’s one of three engagement shapes, chosen for what your business already has in place. No lock-in contracts.
You picked: One-to-one advisory
Book a strategy meetingMonthly consulting depends on scope, how competitive your industry is and whether you need implementation or strategic guidance only. Production work is scoped separately, so you see which hours are senior-direct. More in our SEO cost Sydney 2026 guide.
What senior SEO consulting delivers
Mechanic Desk, Complete Education Australia and Direct SMS show senior work on architecture, a relaunch and content built for Australian search demand.
Figures are from the published case studies.
South QLD Restorations: from near-zero to +498%
Watch how service-specific pages, local authority building and before-and-after project content grew organic traffic 498% from near-zero.
Read the case study →Mechanic Desk
A rebuilt architecture with proper internal linking and schema, plus a landing page for every feature and use case.
Read the case study →Complete Education Australia
URL mapping, redirects and content preservation carried rankings through a relaunch. Traffic recovered fully, then doubled within five months.
Read the case study →Direct SMS
Comparison, use-case and integration content built for Australian search demand.
Read the case study →What clients say
“Blake's team understood our niche immediately. We now own the top spots for every DPF keyword in Australia.”
“The results speak for themselves. We went from invisible to dominating our category in organic search.”
“SEO Sydney has been incredible to work with! Their expertise and strategic approach have helped my website rank higher, bringing in more traffic and leads than ever before. They created a tailored SEO plan that delivered real, measurable results.”
“They understood healthcare compliance and local search. Our new patient enquiries grew significantly within four months.”
Also: Clean My DPF (941% more organic clicks in a niche technical service) and Greenslist Barristers (an active legal campaign built on practitioner-authored content). See all case studies.
Talk it through first
Book a free 30-minute strategy meeting with the person who would do the work.
How a consulting engagement runs
A free strategy meeting leads to an audit and 90-day roadmap within 5–10 business days, then implementation or guidance tracked against monthly milestones.
- Free, 30 minutes
Strategy meetingFree
We learn your business, your goals and what you already have in place, then recommend the engagement that fits.
- 5–10 business days
Audit and roadmap
Technical health, content and keyword gaps, competitors and backlinks, turned into a prioritised 90-day plan and walked through on a 30-minute call.
Implement or guide
We make the changes, brief your developers or review your team’s work, depending on the engagement.
- Every month
Review and adjust
Monthly milestones show whether the campaign is on track. If something isn’t working, we change course.
The senior people you deal with directly
Both are senior: Blake P. is the founder, with 20+ years in search, and Girish Kishore Sawlani is a digital strategist with an MBA and over a decade in SaaS and eCommerce.
No account managers. Your work is done by the same experienced specialists you meet in the strategy meeting.
Blake P.
Founder & DirectorLinkedInFounder of SEO Sydney, with 20+ years in search. Digital Director roles across multiple startups; deep expertise in enterprise architecture, emerging technology and AI-native business systems.
Girish Kishore Sawlani
Head of Strategy & GrowthLinkedInA Digital Strategist with over a decade of experience in data-driven digital strategy for SaaS and eCommerce businesses. MBA (Professional) from Bond University.
Prefer to talk first? Call 0439 801 764 · About our team
Book a free 30-minute strategy meeting
Here’s what happens next:
- You tell us about your site, goals and team
- We reply within 24 hours to book a time
- A free 30-minute meeting: where the opportunities are and which engagement fits
Rated 4.9 on Google
- Allison L.★★★★★
Last year, we teamed up with SEO Sydney to develop our new website, and we are absolutely thrilled with the outcome! The team was highly professional, responsive, and truly attentive to our needs.
Business Owner - Michael K.★★★★★
SEO Sydney has been incredible to work with! Their expertise and strategic approach have helped my website rank higher, bringing in more traffic and leads than ever before. They created a tailored SEO plan that delivered real, measurable results.
Managing Director - Sarah R.★★★★★
Kane was fantastic to work with — flexible with deadlines, approachable with questions, and always attentive to our needs. His expertise led to significant improvements in our SEO performance.
Operations Manager
What does an SEO consultant actually do day-to-day?
An SEO consultant analyses your performance data, finds ranking opportunities, builds content strategies, fixes the technical issues that stop Google crawling and indexing your pages, and watches your competitors. Day to day: title tags, content briefs, schema, internal linking, Search Console reviews and adjusting strategy as rankings change.
Are you freelance SEO consultants or an agency?
Neither in the usual sense. We are two senior SEO consultants in Sydney working as a small team: you get the direct access of a freelance SEO consultant with the depth, tooling and continuity of an agency, and no account manager in between. One client per industry, no lock-in contracts.
How much does an SEO consultant cost in Sydney?
SEO consulting in Sydney typically costs $1,000 to $5,000 a month, depending on scope, industry competition and whether you need implementation or strategic guidance only. The lower end buys strategic direction and content planning; the higher end, full implementation of content, technical SEO and link building. One-off audits start from $1,000. No lock-in contracts; we start with a strategy meeting.
How long until I see results from SEO consulting?
Quick wins like title tag and technical fixes can lift rankings within 2 to 4 weeks. Content-driven gains usually take 3 to 6 months to compound, and competitive positions in legal, medical and financial services 6 to 12 months. We set realistic timelines in the strategy meeting and track monthly milestones, so you know whether the campaign is on track.
Do you offer one-off SEO audits?
Yes. Our one-off SEO audit covers technical health (crawlability, indexation, site speed, schema), content quality and keyword gaps, competitor benchmarking, backlink analysis and a prioritised 90-day action plan. It takes 5 to 10 business days and includes a 30-minute walkthrough call. Many clients start here before deciding on ongoing consulting.
Can you help if we have been penalised by Google?
Yes. We have recovered businesses from both manual actions and algorithmic penalties. We find the cause, usually toxic backlinks, thin content or cloaking from a previous agency, clean it up, file a reconsideration request if needed and rebuild your standing with compliant SEO. Timelines vary, but most businesses see meaningful improvement within 3 to 6 months.
Do you work with businesses outside Sydney?
Yes. Our main focus is Sydney, but we consult for businesses across Australia and overseas, with research tailored to your market. All consulting runs remotely over video calls, screen sharing and shared documents.